Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century: Artistry and Industry in Britain
Author:   Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi ,  Patricia Zakreski
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781472408969


Pages:   306
Publication Date:   28 October 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century: Artistry and Industry in Britain


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Author:   Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi ,  Patricia Zakreski
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9781472408969


ISBN 10:   1472408969
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   28 October 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Artistry and Industry – The Process of Female Professionalisation; I: Industrious Amateurism; 1: Women's Work; 2: Light Work; 3: Pertinacious Industry; 4: Dresses and Drapery; II: The Artistic Career; 5: Contrary to the Habits of Their Sex? Women Drawing on Wood and the Careers of Florence and Adelaide Claxton; 6: The China Painter; 7: Creative Industry; 8: Dorothy's Career and Other Cautionary Tales; III: The Craft of Self-Fashioning; 9: Negotiating Fame; 10: Crafting the Woman Artist; 11: ‘Mady's tightrope walk': The Career of Marian Huxley Collier; 12: Living Art

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'This exciting, insightful and thoughtful collection complicates the concept of the professional woman artist, blurring the boundaries between the so-called domestic crafts and art production'.-- Janice Helland, Professor of Art History, Queen's University, Canada


Author Information

Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi is Senior Lecturer at Bath Spa University, UK, and Patricia Zakreski is Lecturer at the University of Exeter, UK. Linda H. Peterson, Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi, Patricia Zakreski, Talia Schaffer, John Plunkett, Elizabeth Morgan, Alice Barnaby, Catherine Flood, Anne Anderson, Pamela Gerrish Nunn, Andrew King, Valerie Sanders, Ana Parejo Vadillo.

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